Question

women's dress allowance was called pin money because​

Answer 1

Answer:

“Pin money” was originally given to a woman not by her employer, but by her husband — though certainly, until rather ...

Explanation:

Today “pin money” simply means a trivial amount of money, perhaps enough for incidentals. And since the days of the Suffragists, it's been used in a belittling way to demean the wages of working women